Rick’s Weekly Newsletter | Rick Gevers & Associates

July 2, 2017

Greetings:

Best wishes for a happy and safe holiday weekend.

The week leading up to the holiday was a bit slow…with TWO newly named news directors and ONE new opening, leaving our count of open ND positions at 16.

We have TWO new paid help wanted ads for EP positions. Both are in Ohio in a wide range of market sizes.

Only ONE item in Names in the News, with TWO GM items and TWO obituaries.

Have a great week…after you read on!

New News Director Opening:

Castaner

News 12 The Bronx/Brooklyn, NY…BERTA CASTENER will retire as ND for the cable news operation serving two of the New York boroughs. More here. She’s joined News 12 as the Assistant ND in 2010 and was promoted to GM/ND several months later. Berta previously was VP/News for the Telemundo station group, the EP for Senior EP for Telemundo’s network news, an ND for Telemundo stations in Chicago and Puerto Rico, and was a producer for WABC-TV in New York. She plans to retire to South Florida.

Newly Named News Directors:

Bauer

KERO-TV, Bakersfield, CA...we told you in an UPDATE earlier this week that two-time Los Angeles News Director NANCY BAUER (GONZALES) had been named news director for this Scripps owned ABC affiliate. Here’s how the station announced the news. She’s a former ND at both KNBC-TV and KCBS/KCAL-TV, as well as KSND-TV in San Diego. Most recently she’s been ND for a cable news operation in Palmdale, CA, a Los Angeles suburb. At KERO, Nancy replaces LEEZA STARKS who left in May to become ND for another Scripps station, KGUN-TV in Tucson.

Tegels

KJNB-TV, Jonesboro, AR & WNBJ-TV, Jackson, TN…LON TEGELS just finished his first week as the ND for this low power triopoly. KJNB is both a CBS and FOX affiliate, while WNBJ is a low power NBC affiliate. I’ve reached out to Lon for more details on this unusual operation and hope to fill you in with more details next week.

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Other News Management Openings:

ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR:

KMGH-TV, Denver, CO (listed 5/29/17)
KOIN-TV, Portland, OR (listed 6/18/17)
WISH-TV, Indianapolis, IN (listed 6/4/17)
WRTV, Indianapolis, IN (relisted 6/4/17)
KJRH-TV, Tulsa, OK (relisted 6/4/17)
WICS-TV, Springfield, IL (listed 5/29/17)
KEZI-TV, Eugene, OR (relisted this week)
KION-TV, Salinas, CA (listed 6/4/17)
KSNT-TV, Topeka, KS (relisted 5/21/17)
KPLC-TV, Lake Charles, LA (listed 5/14/17)

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:

KRIV-TV, Houston, TX (Senior AM Producer, relisted 6/25/17)
WOIO-TV, Cleveland, OH (AM EP, new listing this week, see ad above!)
WTVD-TV, Raleigh/Durham, NC: (listed 5/14/17)
WMAR-TV, Baltimore, MD (listed 5/29/17)
WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH (relisted 6/4/17)
WPTV, West Palm Beach, FL (AM EP, relisted 6/4/17)
WIVB-TV, Buffalo, NY (listed 5/21/17)
WDTN-TV, Dayton, OH (new listing this week, see ad above!)
KWCH-TV, Wichita, KS (AM EP, relisted this week)
WSLS-TV, Roanoke, VA (listed 5/29/17)
WBAY-TV, Green Bay, WI (listed 6/4/17)
WCSC-TV, Charleston, SC (relisted 5/14/17)
WLBT-TV, Jackson, MS (listed 6/11/17)

MISCELLANEOUS JOBS:

KPRC-TV, Houston, TX: Exec. Planning Editor (listed 6/4/17)
WKOW-TV, Madison, WI: Social Media Mgr. (listed 6/4/17)

Obituaries:

WARREN DOREMUS, a longtime Rochester, NY, anchor and news director, died Monday at the age of 91. He worked for 45 years at WHEC-TV in a variety of roles. The station remembered him in this report.

MARION GOLDIN, a producer who worked for many years alongside MIKE WALLACE at CBS’s 60 Minutes, died June 15th. She was 76. This New York Times obituary looks at her career, which included jobs at ABC, NBC, and PBS.

Names in the News:

Not much to report this week…please send me your items via email: rick@rickgevers.com

CNN’s JAKE TAPPER will be presented with RTDNA’s John F. Hogan award at this year’s EIJ convention in Anaheim. The honor recognizes contributions to journalism and freedom of the press.

General Manager News & Notes:

Bello

WENDY BELLO has been promoted to General Manager for Nexstar’s WROC-TV in Rochester, NY. She’s been the director of sales there and replaces LOU GATTOZZI who is retiring after 19 years as GM of Nexstar stations here and in Erie, PA. WROC aired this story on Gattozzi’s retirement party and his impact on the station and community.

LINDA GRAY has been named Chief Operating Office for Marquee Broadcasting. She’s been the GM for its newly acquired WNKY-TV in Bowling Green, KY. JULIE MILAM, the General Sales Manager, will replace Gray as the GM at WNKY.

Our Full List of Open ND Jobs:

Here’s our list of open ND jobs as of Sunday, July 2, 2017:

It’s unofficial, there may be others that are open, and some of these may have been filled. If you know of any in either category, please let me know: rick@rickgevers.com

News 12 Bronx/Brooklyn 1 Media Crossways, Woodbury, NY 11791
WUSA-TV 4100 Wisconsin Ave NW Washington DC 20016
WGCL-TV 425 14th St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318
KMGH-TV 123 E Speer Blvd. Denver, CO 80203
KMBC-TV 6455 Winchester Ave. Kansas City, MO 64133
WHTM-TV 3235 Hoffman Street Harrisburg, PA 17110
WGRZ-TV 259 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, NY 14202
WBIR-TV 1513 Bill Williams Ave., Knoxville, TN 37917
WLTX-TV 6027 Garners Ferry Rd, Columbia, SC 29209
KWTX-TV 6700 American Plaza, Waco, TX 76712
KFSM-TV 318 N 13th St, Fort Smith, AR 72901
KLFY-TV 1808 Eraste Landry Rd, Lafayette, LA 70506
WSAW-TV, 1114 Grand Ave, Wausau, WI 54403
KTVA-TV 1001 Northway Drive St. 202. Anchorage, AK
WCJB-TV 6220 NW 43rd St, Gainesville, FL 32653
KRTV P.O. Box 2989, Great Falls, Montana, 59403

June 25, 2017

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 UPDATE:

A two-time Los Angeles news director is back in the big chair, but this time in market 126.

Bauer

Late today NANCY BAUER (GONZALES) was named news director of KERO-TV, the Scripps owned ABC affiliate in Bakersfield, CA. The station announced the move in this report on its website.

She’s been an ND in San Diego and for two stations in Los Angeles: KNBC-TV from 1989-2001 and KCBS/KCAL-TV from 2001-2010. Most recently she’s been the ND for Spectrum News (formerly Time Warner Cable) in Palmdale, CA.

At KERO, she replaces LEEZA STARKS who left in May to become ND for sister Scripps station KGUN-TV in Tucson.

More on this story and all the week’s news in our full report this weekend.

regards,

Rick Gevers

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Greetings:

Always good to see a growing number of news directors at this week’s IRE conference, held in the oven known as Phoenix. Attendance was announced at over 1,650: not a record but above expectations.

To our normal business…after a few weeks around a record low count, our list of open ND jobs bumps up again this week, as we have THREE new openings and just ONE filled position. Our count rises to 16: higher than it’s been, but still much lower than it’s been over the years.

We’re sorry to bring you the obituary of a longtime Los Angeles news manager. That’s below.

In Names in the News, we’ve got the list of National Edward R. Murrow Award winners. There’s a link to an article looking at ratings in Boston after the seismic affiliation changes there, we’ll tell you why an Albuquerque news director broke one of her long-time rules, and we’re using a photo strictly for the sake of using it…no new news value at all.

Of course there are some other items in Names in the News, and in GM News and Notes, details about a job change for a veteran large market ND turned GM.

Read on for the details.

New News Director Openings:

Volpicella

WGCL-TV, Atlanta, GA…this is NOT a recording, but there’s another news director change at this Meredith owned CBS affiliate, the seventh in nine years. FRANK VOLPICELLA left after less than a year. Since Frank has worked with GM MARK PIMENTEL before, many thought this would last. It did not. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has more in this story, including the list of Frank’s predecessors. And another AJC story tells us there were MORE changes after Frank left, including some managers. Frank was an ND in Austin for 16+ years, and in Huntsville. He’s also worked in Tampa, Jacksonville, FL, and Lexington.

WHTM-TV, Harrisburg, PA…DAVID JONES is leaving this Nexstar owned ABC affiliate after five years as ND and six at the station. He’s been named ND for WNYT-TV in Albany, NY. More on that below.

Jacoby

WLTX-TV, Columbia, SC…MARYBETH JACOBY will leave this Tegna owned CBS affiliate in early July to pursue new opportunities. She’s been the ND here for nine years, and earlier in her career was the Assistant ND at WLTX…with a stop in between at sister Tegna station WTLV-TV in Jacksonville, FL, as Assistant News Director. She’s also worked in Dallas, Charlotte, and Milwaukee.

Newly Named News Director:

Jones

WNYT-TV, Albany, NY…we told you above that DAVID JONES will be the next ND for this Hubbard Broadcasting owned NBC affiliate. David’s spent six years at WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, PA, the last five as news director. He’s worked in assignment desk roles in Pittsburgh and Charlotte, for the Sinclair Broadcasting Washington bureau, and as a reporter in two small Pennsylvania markets. David replaces ERIC HOPPEL who’s been ND here for seven of his 30 years at the station.

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